IcedTea Fonts

[Hans de Goede]

Thomas Fitzsimmons wrote:
> Hans de Goede wrote:
>> <resending with CC to mailinglist, sorry>
>>
>> Kyle Galloway wrote:
>>> A replacement for the encumbered font rendering code has been checked 
>>> into IcedTea.  It removes the dependency on the encumbered libt2k, 
>>> and replaces it with FreeType.  Sun is working on a more 
>>> full-featured replacement, and I believe the code is close to being 
>>> merged into OpenJDK itself.  Screen shots are available on Francis' 
>>> blog http://fkung.wordpress.com/2007/07/18/icedtea-fonts-working/ .
>>>
>>
>> Very cool,
>>
>> I have some questions I hope you're willing to answer:
>>
>> So how far away are we from something thats theoretically ready to run
>> graphical java apps?
>>
>> Are there any plans on packaging this for inclusion into Fedora 
>> anytime soon,
>> are there any reasons why it cannot be packaged at the moment?
> 
> It's already packaged for Fedora:
> 
> http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/fedora/
> http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/fedora
> 
> Only some questionable license headers are preventing it from being 
> proposed for Rawhide.  As soon as the license headers are cleaned up 
> I'll be proposing it for inclusion.
> 

I already new about those nosrc.rpm's, but I didn't know they were planned to 
go to rawhide, thats really good news! Any progress news on those license headers?

Also any chance we can see a new snapshot there soon with the font stuff included?

last question, can I start trying (and packaging) apps which are known not to 
work with gcj, will you take bug reports for apps not working?

Regards,

Hans